Emma Smith

Emma Smith (10 July 1804-30 April 1879) was the first wife of Joseph Smith and an early Mormon leader.

Biography
Emma Hale was born in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania in 1804, and she met Joseph Smith in 1825 while her family was boarding him as he unearthed an abandoned silver mine. In 1827, they married in New York, and she was baptized a Mormon by Oliver Cowdery in 1830. Emma accompanied her husband during his travels to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and she served as President of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo from 1842 to 1844. After her husband was murdered by an angry mob in 1844, Emma Smith became an opponent of the new LDS Church president, Brigham Young. While Young and the majority of Mormons abandoned Nauvoo for Salt Lake City, Smith and her children remained behind in the emptied town, and she died in 1879.